Caissa
Caissa may refer to: * Caïssa, a mythical Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess * ''Caissa'' (moth), a moth genus in the family Limacodidae * Caissa Capital Caissa Capital was a hedge fund founded by Jonathan Kinlay in 2002, based on his research on volatility arbitrage in the late 1990s. In addition to Kinlay, who was head of research and portfolio management, the management team comprised Internati ...

Caissa (moth)
''Caissa'' is a moth genus in the family Limacodidae. Species *''Caissa aurea'' *''Caissa bezverkhovi'' *''Caissa caii'' *''Caissa caissa'' Hering, 1931 *''Caissa fasciatum'' *''Caissa gambita'' *''Caissa longisaccula'' *''Caissa medialis'' *''Caissa parenti'' *''Caissa staurognatha'' References External links Limacodidae genera Limacodidae {{Limacodidae-stub ...
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Caïssa
Caïssa ( a:isa is a fictional (anachronistic) Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess. She was first mentioned during the Renaissance by Italian poet Hieronymus Vida. Vida's poem Caïssa originated in a 658-line poem called ''Scacchia Ludus'' published in 1527 by Hieronymus Vida (Marco Girolamo Vida), which describes in Latin Virgilian hexameters a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods. In it, to avoid unclassical words such as ''rochus'' (chess rook) or ''alfinus'' (chess bishop), the rooks are described as towers (armored howdahs) on elephants' backs, and the bishops as archers: A leaked unauthorized 742-line draft version was published in 1525. Its text is very different, and in it Caïssa is called Scacchia, the chess rook is a cyclops, and the chess bishop is a centaur archer. The description of towers led to the modern name "castle" for the chess rook, and thus the term "castling", and the modern shape of the European rook ...
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